YaCy is a distributed Web Crawler and Web Search Engine without a central server and no censoring possibility. It's a P2P-based index exchange network based on distributed hash tables.
Explicit Web crawls can be done locally or collaboratively, forming a global search and distributed indexing engine for the Web. It also provides a bookmark system, individual Web/servlet page hosting, and a personal file-sharing zone. It is easy to install and has its own database engine.
Features:
This is your web search engine for freedom of information: search requests are anonymous, independend and uncensored
No central server, no storage of user behaviour
Set up your own search portal
Use YaCy to provide a search function for your own web pages
Host web pages with the built-in http-server
FreewareFiles tested YACY 0.90 on 2009-06-23 using leading
antivirus scanners and found it 100% Clean. It does not contain any form
of malware, spyware, viruses, trojans, etc. We will re-test each updated
version and remove the award as well as the program if found infected.
User Reviews
"Well...Ummm..."
Reviewer: -The Vermin8tor
Review Date: 2007-01-12
Average Rating (6 Votes ) 4.00
Pros: None
Cons: None
Other Thoughts: Downloaded and installed it.Seems ok.But not my 'cup-of-tea'...Possibly good anonymous wise.Maybe I'lljust spend more time with it, and then get back to you all with a review.